Chicago Jazz Festival

The Chicago Jazz Festival is an annual week before and on Labor Day weekend (first Monday in September ) that takes place in Chicago Jazz Festival. It took until 2013 mainly in the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park in downtown Chicago.

Concerts in the park are free and many listeners have a picnic there (alcohol, tents, pets and crickets, however, prohibited ). However, there are other venues in the city ( such as the Chicago Cultural Center ), and in 2013 it is very moving to Millennium Park ( Main Stage Pritzker Pavilion). The urban organizer ( Mayor's Office of Special Events ) work closely with the Jazz Institute of Chicago.

The festival originated in 1979 from the merger of three previous Jazz Festival at the initiative of the city of Chicago. Once upon a time a tribute concert for Duke Ellington, which took place shortly after his death in 1974, a tribute concert for John Coltrane, which attracted 30,000 spectators in 1978 in the park, and the Jazz Institute of Chicago in 1979, planned for the end of August festival. According see the festival continue Tributes to jazz musicians instead.

The festival will be broadcast nationwide on radio and highlights on TV.

In addition to local musicians from Chicago also occur international stars. Here 's event included Miles Davis, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Anthony Braxton, Betty Carter, Lionel Hampton, Chico O'Farrill, Jimmy Dawkins, Von Freeman, Johnny Frigo, Slide Hampton, Roy Haynes, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, BB King, Count Basie, Sun Ra, Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Burrell and Ornette Coleman. 2013 Hamid Drake Artist in Residence of the festival.

It carry on, among other things:

• 2008: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Vijay Iyer, Donald Harrison, Dave Douglas, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Palmieri. There were tributes to AACM and Franz Jackson.
• 2009 Esperanza Spalding, Diane Delin, Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori as a piano duo, Madeleine Peyroux, Jeff Parker, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, William Parker, Eric Schneider, Archie Shepp, Buddy DeFranco ( Art Tatum Tribute), Dave Holland Big Band
• 2010 René Marie, Kurt Elling, Nicole Mitchell, Ramsey Lewis, Henry Threadgill
• 2011 ORBERT Davis (Artist in Residence ), Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Roy Hargrove, Randy Weston and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble with arrangements of Melba Liston
• 2012 Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Papo Vázquez, Evan Christopher, Atomic, Gregory Porter, Hamid Drake, Jimmy Heath and Rudresh Mahanthappa